Film narratology /
Peter Verstraten ; translated by Stefan van der Lecq.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
- vi, 259 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Handboek Filmnarratologie.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is cinema essential narrative? -- Basic principles of narratology -- The narrative impact of the mise en scáene -- The narrative impact of cinematography -- Story and fabula disconnected through editing -- The visual narrator and visual focalization -- Tension between the visual and auditive narrators -- Sound as a narrative force -- The narrative principles of genres -- Filmic excess : when style drowns the plot -- Appendix : The virgin suicides as a test case.